Staining

[Steve321]

I am thinking of staining the mahogany neck on my acoustic.
I’m looking for the sequence others use successfully.

The stain I will be using is ColorTone liquid diluted with H2O.

So over all the steps I need to do are

Sealing, pore filling, finish coats.

Not sure if folks use the stain before sealing, or between sealing and grain filling, or between grain filling and finish coats.

If the stain is before the grain filler how do you avoid sanding through it?

I am not anywhere near ready to do this for real but will test it out on scrap mahogany until I am content with the results.

Thanks.

[phavriluk]

I always thought that stain needs to be applied to bare wood, the first element of a finish. I'm gonna learn something here....